Romney open to 'reexamining' Pollard case
Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says that he would be willing to reexamine the case of long-imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Romney joined his rival for the Republican nomination, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, in making comments perceived as positive by the Free Pollard campaign.Much as I think Pollard's sentence was excessive, and I would like to see him released, I have to wonder how many Jews (if that's the goal) would be more inclined to vote for either Gingrich or Romney over Obama out of a belief that one of them would release Pollard. Unfortunately, too many American Jews are still uncomfortable calling for Pollard's release.
Gingrich became the first candidate in the presidential race to hint that he would free Pollard, telling CNN in an interview two weeks ago: “I am prepared to say my bias is towards clemency, and I would like to review it. He’s been in a very long time. But we are pretty tough about people spying on the United States.”
US President Barack Obama, who is likely to face off against Romney or Gingrich in November 2012, received a formal request for clemency for Pollard from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu more than a year ago and has not responded to it.
And I'm not convinced that most of our Christian supporters are even aware of the issue.
Labels: Jonathan Pollard, Mitt Romney
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:56 PM
1 Comments:
Well, this Christian friend of Israel is well aware of the Pollard case. Jonathan Pollard is where he belongs, where he put himself by his terrible crime, in a maximum security federal prison. Johnathan Pollard, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, the Walkers, all wretched birds of a feather, IMO.
We're going to have to agree to disagree on this one, Carl.
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